Section V - Intelligence Reports: A Guide to the Kenya National ...

DC/MBT 31316 MARSABIT DISTRICT POLICE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
Dec 1939-June 1943. 131 pp.
Correzpondence re IRs.
Marsabit District Police IRs, 1939. J. A. Sweeney, ASP. Dec. 7 pp.
Italians in Abyssinia: movements across the border, shifta attacks, African
desert-on from Italian army, African recruitment.
Marsabit District Police IRs, 1940. J. A. Sweeney, ASP; W. F. Coutts, DC,
for ASP; 13. R. Gribble, ASP; R. K. Allen, ASP. Jan-Dec. 29 pp.
Italian propaganda; tribal affairs: feuds, movements, Gelubba raid Gabbra;
suspic .ous individuals; game damage; murder; armed Shangalla incursions;
effects on Marsabit of declaration of international war, Italian bombing, Boran
aid downed aircraft; attitude of tribes toward British.
Marsabit District Police IRs, 1940. J. A. Sweeney, ASP; W. F. Coutts, DC,
for ASP; '3. R. Gribble, ASP. Jan-July. 25 pp.
Affairs of Italians in Abyssinia: attempted movements across the border, mili-
tary rc,cruitment, African military recruits discontented, shifta attacks,
Italian counter-measures, tax, rifles issued to Gelubba, details on Italian
forces Italian military posts strengthened; Shangalla incursions into Kenya;
Italian retreat, Shangalla marauding unchecked across border.
Marsabit District Military IRs (ASP to DC): 1940. R. K. Allen, ASP.
Aug-Dec. 11 pp.
Shifta 'ictivity in Abyssinia; tribal affairs: movements, Degodia aid Italians and
raid G.~bbra; war progress; tribal attitudes; military recruitment.
Marsabit District Police 1Rs.ASP to ASP, NFD), 1944. R. K. Allen, AIP; P.
Whiteing, AgASP. Jan-Mar, May, July, Oct. 7 pp.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: Gelubba murders; tribal affairs: cattle theft, feuds,
forced movements by British; war progress; special security report; British
intel1i~:ence work, tribal raiders, activities of native police.
Marsabit District Military IRs (ASP to DC), 1941. R. K. Allen, ASP. Jan.
2 PP.
Affairs, of Italians in Abyssinia: propaganda; Abyssinian refugees.
Marsabit District Police IRs (ASP to ASP, NFD), 1942. P. Whiteing, AgSP;
F. W. Butler, AIP, for ASP. Mar-Dec. 20 pp.
Shifta raids into Kenya; Gabbra raid Merille; Merille raids; lack of tribal in-
terest in Italo-British war; activities of outposts, patrols.
Patrol re:>orts of F. W. Butler, AIP, for ASP and unknown author, North Horr,
to ASP, hdarsabit. 8/5/42 to 1/9/42. 12 pp.
Patrol activities; Merille raiders hunted, cattle seized; new buildings.
Marsabit Police IRs, 1943. P. Whiteing, AgASP; J. Carter, AgASP. Feb-
May, Sep: (not always written monthly). 15 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: internal disorder, shiftas; tribal affairs: cattle theft, move-
ments, Gelubba attack Gabbra; locusts; detailed patrol activity; recapture of
escaped Italian POWs; rabies; "public gossip".
DC/ MBT 3/41 1 MARSABIT DISTRICT MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Mar 1938-May 1938. 65 pp.
Northern Frontier District Military IRs, 1938. G. Reece, OIC. Mar-May,
several n~onthly supplements. 63 pp.
Italians: propaganda, military forces analysis, military post locations, bridges
and ro.~ds, rumours of Jubaland cession to Germany, ammunition and arms,
important personalities, shiftas vs govt troops, border migrations, recruitment,
rumours of poison gas, border beacons; tribal affairs: feeling throughout NFD
about 13ritish, Italian, and Abyssinian events; strong Somali feeling about and
passiv- resistance to non-native poll tax; tax.